"We believe that the First Amendment is designed to safeguard a functioning and fair democracy. The current system of campaign financing makes a mockery of that ideal by enabling the rich to set the national agenda, and to exercise disproportionate influe

Letter written by Brennan Center leadership to Senators to rebut letters from the National Right to Life Committee (NRLC), dated February 17
and February 20, 1998, in opposition to the Snowe-Jeffords Amendment to the McCain-Feingold Bill.